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Flight 93 is a 2006 American drama television film directed by Peter Markle and written by Nevin Schreiner, which chronicles the events onboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks in 2001. It premiered on January 30, 2006, on A&E, and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006.
She was the first woman to earn a pilot's license in New Hampshire and the first female commercial pilot in New England. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] When she earned her license in 1929 [ 6 ] she was one of only 117 female American pilots [ 7 ] and was a charter member of the international female pilots' organization the Ninety-Nines .
United 93 is a 2006 film written and directed by British filmmaker Paul Greengrass. The film largely chronicles the events aboard the eponymous hijacked flight, [3] one of the four hijacked flights during the September 11 attacks on America. Flight 93 was the only plane to not hit its intended target due to the intervention of passengers and crew.
Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell (born April 20, 1976; née Ng A Qui) is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, and the first female African-American fighter pilot in the history of that service. She flew the F-16 Fighting Falcon during combat missions in Operation Northern Watch.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.
[4] [15] She arrived early at the airport on September 11, 2001, allowing her to board United Airlines Flight 93, which was earlier than her originally scheduled flight. [4] Grandcolas name on the Flight 93 National Memorial. Grandcolas, who was originally seated in seat 11D, called her husband from towards the rear of the aircraft in row 23. [16]
Heather Renee Penney (born September 18, 1974) is a defense policy expert at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies in Arlington, Virginia.She is best known for her role as a USAF lieutenant who was one of two F-16 pilots who flew their unarmed planes in an attempt to ram and down [1] United Airlines Flight 93 before it reached Washington, D.C., during the September 11, 2001, terrorist ...
Patricia Noisette Banks Edmiston (born April 27, 1937) [1] is an American who was one of the first Black flight attendants. [2] She combated discriminatory practices in the United States by initiating a legal action against Capital Airlines (merged into United Airlines in 1961) via the New York State Commission Against Discrimination.